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>Sir you have to click on OK first or it'll do nothing
> "HAHA oh! These machines are all so different! Haha!!"

>item doesn't scan
"OH WELL I GUESS IT'S FREE ! HAHA !"
every.
fucking.
time.

> be cashier
> just kiddng
> can you imagine?

>Customer with over 100 dollars worth of stuff
>Ring everything up
>Proceed to bag
>Customer doesn't help bag
>Can you do paper and plastic?
>Customer stands there staring at you while you try to bag as quickly as possible
>People behind the customer are also staring at you

>Oh shit this is so awkward stop staring at meeee hnngg

>Finish bagging
>Ring up
>They leave

>Next customer
>Jesus christ that lady was staring a hole through you, here let ME help you bag.
>Thisguyknowshowitbe

>>1367615
I help bag shit everytime. it's so fucking rude when people just stand there and stare at you like a fucking cow grazing. Ffff-

>today
>some guy with a pack of chips
>he puts it on the counter
>I scan it
>he tries to pay with credit card
>"sir we don't ta--"
>he makes no eye contact and immediately walks away without saying a word
>What the fuck just happened

>>1367632
It's your fucking job so shut the hell up and do it. I'm paying for my fucking overpriced groceries, why the fuck do you think I should help put them in bags. Fucking worthless kids. Back in my day people would kill for a job, fucking overprivileged fuck.

>>1367653

>>1367653

AWWWWWWWW SHIT
he mad

I was a cashier once.

When you get people like that, just use the price check mode on the register and ask them if they want their stuff before you scan it.

>>1367653
I always help bagging and whatnot but jesus christ be a bit fucking quick and stop being elder and slow.

>>1367653

Lolrage or toll, The world may never know!

>>1367665
I need the boss for that too.

>Registers are all busy
>Mine opens up
>Take the chance to escape
>Collect all the left carts and bring them outside
>At the same time someone ("dave") else just so happens to ask a different guy ("Max") to bring the same carts outside
>One customer gets mad that "dave" is bossing them around
>Customer thinks "dave" is talking to me
>I have no idea whats going on
>Bring carts outside
>Customer meets me at entrance
>"Hey man next time you need to stand up for your self and not do what other people make you do, I yelled at that guy for you, I got your back man"
>Uh, what?
>After rush is over all three of us have a laugh at that customer.

>Few days later that customer comes around again
>Hey anon how ya doin man, hey do me a favor-
>*throws a bag of chips at me*
>Can you put those back for me? thanks!
>But you just! mother fucker! no!
>Stuff bag of chips into candy rack.

>>1367653
You don't have to stand there and stare at me either though.

>>1367686
I FUCKING HATE WHEN THE CUSTOMERS TRY TO MOTIVATE YOU

>line is busy as shit
>be a quick cashier because I rock
>the fucking customer says "Hey man just in situations like these you have to chill out and keep control of yourself don't let the line get ahold of you etc etc etc."

SHUT THE FUCK UP I'M DOING MY FUCKING JOB

I'm not a cashier any more but I was back in my more innocent teenage days. I had to keep myself in beer and weed somehow.

>working at wickes (diy/building supplies)
>guy comes in and buys like 200 bricks
>i don't give a fuck about the job and I can't be bothered to figure out which brick it is and type it in
>my way of doing things is to just choose the cheapest type of brick and do that one, because nobody is going to complain about it
>some old guy goes back and says he's been undercharged
>i saved him like 40GBP and he wanted to pay it
>what the fuck?

>>1367682
What kind of gay store is this?

Need manager to do price checks and take out items that are only $20?

>>1367716
Oh yeah you have those too.
Today I gave this couple a free cola-bottle because I forgot to scan it and didn't want to make a big deal out of it.
Luckily they got the message without me having to explain and gave me a quick thanks and left.

Water refills only cost $0.29 at Hy-Vee.
>We only price match advertised prices, mam
Can you do it this one time, since I'm already here?
>There's too much on the ticket for me to overide without a manager. Just a moment.
But they did it for me last time, come on!
>Just a moment mam. My supervisor should be able to
ARE YOU GOING TO KEEP ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WAITING!? I COME IN HERE ALL THE TIME? WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM!

Bitch got through 2 levels of managers before she accepted a no, and kept my line effectively closed for 30 minutes.

>>1367730
Price check button is a manager-thing by itself, no matter what the price is. I work at Lidl, it's the cheapest supermarket in fucking Europe. Poor people's home.

>>1367741
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE.
>srewsly and

>>1367615
>go to buy a bag of oats from this weird health foods place because apparently their oats are really good
>"do you want a bag for this?"
>"err, yeah that'd be nice thanks"
>cashier isn't very good with her hands (dyspraxia?)
>takes about a 40 seconds to get a bag off the pile and put the oats in it
>as she hands the bag over the counter it tears open
>she sighs and starts preparing a second bag
>the queue behind me is growing and i feel guilty for requesting the cahier tortures herself
>i've read every sign behind the counter, counted the change in my pocket and checked my phone
>finally she is done

this was an extreme and not entirely relevant example for what i'm about to say... sometimes the customer is also some socially awkward failure who doesn't have the balls to interupt and bag shit.

>Work at target
>No matter who it is, have to get ID for people buying alcohol, wont let me complete the transaction without a valid ID.
>Most of the time play it up for old ladies
>"I'm sorry ma'am, but I'm afraid I'm going to need to card you for this."
>Usually get praise and laughter from women who haven't been carded in decades, makes them feel young again
>I made someone feel better today. :3

>Working as usual
>Elderly lady comes up
>Alcohol
>Start the spiel
>Lady gets pissed
>DO I NOT LOOK OLD ENOUGH TO YOU?!
>I HAVE MORE THAN EARNED THE RIGHT TO NOT GET CARDED
>BLAH BLAH BLAH I AM UPSET AT HOW THIS WORKS
>goodness ma'am Im sorry I have to do get the ID every time no matter what just doing my job sorry oh goodness
>Women, right?

ALSO

>Cashiering
>Hear something in the distance
>Sounds like obnoxious chatter
>Oh no, it's coming this way
>two old ladies chatting in spanish so loud and shrill that I can't think
>Can't say a damn thing as a teenage male in Ohio

Such is life as a register monkey.

>>1367734

I used to love giving out free shit when I was working there. I hated the job and all of my power-mad, fat loser managers so I'd use every opportunity to give nice people things without them paying for it.

>friend's dad walks into store
>nobody currently buying so I leave my till and go and say hi to him
>ask him what he's buying
>"i need two of these wooden strips"
>"would you like 2 for 1?"
>"is that a promotion you're doing?"
>"no, i'm just not going to scan one of them"
>"ok"


Another time,
>typical builder type trying to steal stuff by hiding it under other things on big stupid trolley
>pick up thing that's hiding other thing
>look at guy
>look at item
>put it back down without scanning hidden item
>eye contact
>"that will be [total] please"


And such is life when you treat your employees like shit.

>>1367716
Andy, is that you?

datyouandy?blox

>>1367653
yh sometimes the cashier just jumps on bagging shit up before i can even try

>cashier having a fucking conversation with the person in front of me

Fuck you fags

>>1367781

No my name's Chris. Wickes in Chatham in case anyone's interested and I haven't worked there in 4 years.

mynameischrisblox

>tfw the cashier tries to make you pay for the bottled coke you got from the reasturant awhile ago

>tfw you have to drag out the recipt and the cunt still tries to charge you for it

I hope the manager fired your ass you stupid cunt.

>>1367575
THIS.

"Nope." *enters price manually and charges 10 cents extra*
FUCK YOU!

>>1367826
ah my friend hasn't worked there for probably 14 years. Can't remember which one he was at. They used to compete to see who could lift the most doors and other weird shit like that.

Any cashiers here that actually started hating people in general because of their job, realizing how they're all really just the fucking same?

>bagger cart pusher reporting in

>bagging
>bag everything for the customer
>customer says it's prices too much
>have to look into the bag to find something
>find the item they take it off
>still too much
>have to find another item
>it grinds my gears when that happens

>the old o it's not ringing up, it must be free
>it gets tiring after the first couple of times hearing it

>people who ask if they want my cart when i'm pushing a lot
>no i don't want your cart can't you see i'm struggling with these
>one time someone told customer service about me saying no
>nothing really happened

ITT: ungrateful faggots who cum in their pants with rage if you dont live up to their self rightious standards.

Its like /v/, except the losers have a job.

>Working as a cashier
>Look out the window across the street, see someone darting across the road in her car
>Comes in, wanders around for 5 minutes making loud yelping and sobbing noises
>Buys a pack of cigarettes and lighter
>Goes out to car, chain smokes 5, and talks to herself loudly for an hour and a half
>Leaves
>Comes back at 2:30 and does the same

Love the midnight shift at a gas station. You never know weird until you know the blokes that end up in a gas station at fucking 2:30

>>1368011
I'd fucking love to work at a gas station night shift, damn.

>>1367480

>be commissioned sales associate
>treat cashiers like my personal bitch
>get them to do all kinds of outlandish shit for my customers at cash just so they'll have a good experience and want to buy off me again
>totally allowed to because that's the nature of my job

get a better job you plebs

Once all the coffin dodgers of the eldest generation die off there will be no more cashiers. In supermarkets at least. Self-checkouts are the future and the only reason they're not fully implemented is because technophobes shit their adult diapers at the thought of operating any kind of technology beyond a wireless radio from the 1940s.

>>1368010
People are just mad that their lives are like this, is all. When they were kids, they had big, lofty dreams and, as they got older, they gradually started to fade away as reality set in. There's hardly such a thing as working gratefully in the West because there's hardly such a thing as being happy in the workplace in the West.

These jobs are sucking the lives out of these posters, all for a pittance of a paycheck and things to buy to keep themselves from dwelling on the fact that their lives aren't going the way they always thought it would.

Stop being mad.
Start being sad.

>>1368034
I remember when my managers bossed me around. I warned them and when they did it again I left on the spot.
Those fucks were mad at shit but they can't fire me because I'm the best and most loved cashier of the neighbourhood and elder people would probably get their fucking guns if my manager'd fire me.

That's right faggot I can use "I'll quit" as a threat.

>no thanks I have one at home
>hahaha
>HAHAHA
>FUCKING HAHAHA

>>1368049
Pretty much this.
Being a cashier is the most depressing thing ever and it's everything you shouldn't be.

>>1368025
I do like it, even if the schedule can be a bit difficult. It's really peaceful in the middle of the night when all of your work is done, the store is clean and everything has died down. You just grab a cup of coffee, step outside and enjoy a cigarette in the cool night air.

Well I'm not a cashier but I work at a deli market at a supermarket, and it's close enough so fuck you

>6pm, counter has closed down as usual, all the sandwich salads are covered and refrigerated, all the hot food is gone
>It's policy for us to stick around for an hour to make it seem as if we're still doing shit, apparently it sends a bad image if the entire deli counter is empty while the shop is still open
>Some stupid bitch walks up
>"Hi, are you still doing food?"
>"No, sorry, we're closed for today"
>"Ohhhh, oh right, could I get a chicken roll?"
>I do that squint-eyes dis-niggah-serious face
>"No, sorry, we don't do food after six, the counter's closed"
>"Why are you still here?"
>"We're, uh, cleaning"
>"Ok, so then can I get a chicken roll"
>By this point my two coworkers come over and are listening in
>I continue explaining that the counter is closed goddammit, please fuck off
>"This is unacceptable, you won't serve me, I'm getting the manager"
>She leaves
>Neither she nor the manager comes back

What in the fuck? It must of clicked with her as she walked away how fucking retarded she was being.

>>1367927
Yup! Was a cashier for a year before I quit. At first it wasn't so bad.. but after months and months of, "Hi how are you!?" hundreds of times a day takes a toll on you. It got to the point where I absolutely dreaded going to work the next day. Shit just got too fucking robotic after awhile.

Tried to get transferred into another department like backroom but no avail. he day I left, didn't leave a two week notice or anything, couldn't bear the thought of working that fucking job for another two weeks.

Cashiering at a place like Target, Wal-mart. Never fucking again.

>>1368038
Younger people are also against self-checks, you know. They're not a perfect system, for one, and implementing them gets rid of jobs, no matter how stupid the actual jobs are.

Inexperienced people still need to work to live, you know.

>>1367927
Working in retail for 4 years made me extremely bitter and just a little bit jaded, because every single customer I've ever served (worked in fast food, I practically did it to myself in hindsight) was honestly borderline retarded. Though apparently I'd get constant compliments on my treatment of customers. What the fuck?

>>1368097
EXACTLY, JESUS CHRIST. At some point you also feel like you work in a mental hospital. People are so fucking retarded when it comes to the most common and simple things and you have to explain to them. When I was a kid I thought that grown-ups were smart but now that I'm 20 I realize that people double my fucking age are more retarded than I am and it's depressing, as it makes me lose faith in humanity and in myself.
>>1368124
Yeah, got compliments too.
>>1368088
Exactly, I'd love that. Just relaxing for a few hours with a lot of coffee. Sleep schedule's a bitch though I bet. Minimum salary though?

>>1368097
I worked Softlines at Target. THAT was supposed to be my job, not to fucking cashier whenever the fuck someone decided to call in.

Honestly, that was my only problem. I cashiered a good amount, especially on Black Friday, and all of the customers were pretty okay. I guess the slightly (slightly) higher prices keeps the human garbage out.

What made me hate retail was the management, not the customers. No one wants to have a morning pow-wow. No customer wants to be constantly bothered with "can I help you with something?" "Would you like to apply for our credit card?" " Would you like to donate to this charity?"

And then the actual cashiers have the possibility of actually getting fucking fired if they don't "sell" enough credit cards. How in the hell is that even logical? If people say no, they fucking say no. Which is all of the time.

I couldn't possibly imagine doing ANYTHING at Walmart. That place reeks of corporate bullshit.

>>1368097
It helps when you don't work at a huge chain. When you're the only person in the store people that come in often tend to be extremely friendly and get to know you and you them quite well. I've been there for nearly a year and I still don't feel like stabbing people whenever I say 'how're you?' when they walk in the door

>work the graveyard shift at a 7-Eleven
>too poor to own a Walkman or anything.
>I'm a bad singer
>some guys face when they walked into me singing all of "the wall", which I knew by heart at the time.

Another time I got robbed while I was singing "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta". The dude was pretty cool about it he even sang along with me.

I wouldn't go back.

>>1367615
>>1367632

In what country do the cashiers bag your shit? Here they rarely even give you a bag to begin with.

>mfw

>>1368195
Those places NEVER FUCKING HIRE, though. I really tried getting into a smaller thing. I wanted to work in a videostore or something. But they don't hire at all.
>>1368219
Netherlands here bro. It's not usual here either but I do it anyway, makes customers hurry the fuck up.

>>1368216
hahahahhaahhaa good grief that made me laugh.

>>1368216
My parents refuse to let me work at a gas station/corner store because of robberies.

Glad to know it's not some paranoid myth, I guess. They seem like such chill places to work most of the time, though.

I work at the deli/meat counter

>old lady asks about some soup meat
>"yes I think we got some packed out in the cooler there"
>"oh those are all so big"
>"so how much did you want?"
>"about one kilo"
>go down to the cooler to pick up a package I can open to weight up 1 kg, the first pack on the shelf is exactly 1 kg.
>"here this one is one kilo"
>"oh that one... do they all look like that......."
>she starts reading her note and looking around, saying nothing, while I just stand there holding the package
>it is obvious that she wants me to find a whole new piece of beef back and cut it in front of her, because she is old and doesn't trust stuff in a plastic bag.
>And she won't ask for it either, she will just stand there and murmur until she gets her way
>fuck that!
>grit my teeth and stand there until she takes the pack and goes

>>1368187
Yeah man, I don't mean to sound like a bitcher but that's really how the job changes your opinions. The pros & cons I thought about before I quit went something like this:

Pros
>Decent money if you can pick up other peoples hours
>Walking distance from my house
>Occasional cool people
>Gas station a block away for smokes
>Managers and co-workers liked me
>Got compliments often on my customer service

Cons
>Sub $8/hour Pay
>Not allowed more than 40 hours a week
>Majority of the customers ( High maintenance Old ladies and people who can't speak english
>Didn't enjoy my environment
>Didn't feel sense of accomplishment from work
>Screaming kids the whole shift making your ears bleed and making you anxious
>Dead end job (Work there for 5 years for *maybe* the chance of earning $10/hour
>Everybody in environment was EXTREMELY fake and passive aggressive
>Always pissed off as fuck when getting off shift
>Inconsistent schedule - I did not have a life, my life belonged to Target

Needless to say right now I'm looking for a chill spot at a store in the mall or becoming a Waiter/server, the money would well compensate all the bullshit.

I used to work at a store that was kind of like Trader Joe's or Whole Foods called Central Market. It's in the same chain as HEB if you live in Texas and know what HEB is. It was the San Antonio store, so LOTS of Mexicans.

>white customer
>has kids
>loud, obnoxious brats
>always trying to scan stuff on my machine
>scans everything multiple times
>have to call manager over
>now in trouble
>customer is pissed due to what they perceive as staff fucking around
or
>white children under 10 trying to "help" me lift things from the cart
>don't need their help
>they won't listen
>they drop everything that is glass
or
>customer can weigh and price certain items
>such as candy, granola, coffee
>white children do this
>always lie and try to put more candy than the bag says

This is in contrast to Mexican children who are always totally silent and perfectly behaved. I assume because they're beaten regularly.

>>1368283
>And she won't ask for it either, she will just stand there and murmur until she gets her way
I know this. I know this action, and it's really disturbing to me. I cannot remember for the life of me where I've seen it happen, but it's just the creepiest fucking shit.

>Worked at a Randalls deli
>We have a register but we can't ring up produce
>For some reason, every fucking person went by there to get checked out
>Guy yells at a coworker to get him potato salad from across the fucking store
>I'm working the fryer; one worker is cleaning; another is making sandwiches
>Guy is waiting at the register and yells to me that we need to work on our teamwork
>I go over and start checking him out
>Notice he has asparagus; tell him we can't ring that up here
>Starts yelling at me about how useless I am
>Ring up the rest of his shit and he tells me to tell my manager what happened
>Next guys in line were total bros and cheered me up after that bullshit
>Go tell my manager; he says some dumbass was yelling about nothing
>Get in no trouble
>Find his sunglasses at the register
>He comes back demanding to know where they are
>lol I dunno
>Free sunglasses

>>1368379
Minimum salaries everywhere.

>>1368268
Gas station worker, here. We've never had an outright robbery (that I know of). Just plenty of drive-offs. A lot of the time we'll turn the pumps on for customers we know well and they'll come in and pay, but erry now and again some asshole will either drive off intentionally, or end up using a card without realizing it wasn't accepted. If the employee isn't paying attention in a case like this, they end up paying for it. Fuck, last week I almost lost out $100+. They didn't realize that their card wasn't taken and nothing showed up on my end, but for some reason they came in to make sure. I was pretty happy about that

>>1367741
>Hy-Vee in your area

Where do you live?

>>1368386
Another story

If you find an expired item at Central Market you can get a non-expired one for free.

>lady appears
>two whole carts filled well over the top
>all expired items
>slow day/time
>only one manager around
>is new holiday manager
>he must ring up, void and then source new item for each expired item
>takes him about 3 hours
>a month later
>same shit happens
>same manager
>same amount of time

This lady showed up every month or so and even though there was a person they call a "Foodie" assigned to each aisle to monitor the content and shelving of that aisle, this lady still always had a million fucking expired items.

They also didn't hire this holiday manager as full time when they needed one, they hired someone who'd never been a manager before because he was a college student and she was an older married woman with kids.

>>1368011
I think I saw this the other day...

>End shift
>alone
>cleaning everything, remove fresh meat/fish from counters, making stuff ready for the morning shift
>that one mental customer who always comes one hour before closing and takes ten minutes to work out what she wants.

>>1368526
I wish they came one hour before

>that one customer who always arrives EXACTLY as you lock the front door
>"Cmon man, I'll just be a minute, I really need to get some stuff"
>its always cigarrettes
>Now I just shake my head

>>1368499
Fuck yeah hy-vee

NO ONE SAYS SIR OR MADAM THIS FUCKING MUCH

>>1368499
lt's a secret.

>>1368622
Oh... okay...

Thought I could make a new arcanine bro IRL

That'll teach me to be friendly.......

;_;

>>1368598
You do when you're really a seething cauldron of hatred and despair.

>>1368192
Walmart is alright during the night shift

and by alright I mean you get the weirdos coming in

During the daytime is when the human trash holds court in the store

I work in produce at walmart.

They keep putting me in other departments. Meats is cold and dark and lonely.

I am so depressed today I actually told people I was sad for once. I'm so sad I can barely move. I just want to curl up on the floor and lay there and die.

I want to lay on the floor in the bathroom and just become a puddle and flow down the drain. I'm hiding in the bathroom my last ten mins because I just cant stand being out there.

>Work in supermarket, for once I'm not on the fucking tills
>Putting stuff out in the frozen section, customer comes up to me and asks if we have some kind of raspberry tart or some shit in stock
>Tell him that there's none in the stuff I'm putting out now, and if there's none out already
>"Can you go check in the back for me anyway? I bet you do have some in the back somewhere! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
>FUCKYOUNIGGER "HAHAHAHAH Yeah, I'll just go have a look"
>Go into the back ask "Big Bastard Bob" if we have any, help him have a look for one, but there aren't any.
>Go back out and tell him we don't
>"Well, you didn't look for very long did you? Go back and have another look."
>"If there's none out right now and there aren't any in the back, then we're definitely out of stock and will have to order some in for tomorrow".
>"I want to speak to your surpervisor please".
>Bring the supervisor back with me, customer says "This lad here doesn't seem to think you don't have any of a particular dessert in stock. Can you go show him how to check the back PROPERLY and then come back with one for me?"
>Supervisor and I go to the back room, stand around in there for 15 minutes bitching about the customer and other customers that are dicks.
>Go back out "Nope, we had a really long look. and there definitely wasn't on there".
>"Oh that's ok then, I was planning on getting this at first anyway, just wanted to see if you had any of that one in"

FUCKING ASSHOLE.

>>1368865
I've noticed that "can I speak to your supervisor" is code for "I'm a big dumb faggot please rape my face".

so many tales of woe from my two (TWO) cashier jobs...

>no social skills
>rarely try to make small talk, when i do it's pretty forced
>every transaction seems to span an hour of silence
>so happy when done that i finally get a voice to wish them a nice day (sometimes "have a great nice" "have a grice grey" etc.

at one job every employee and their family gets a discount
>one manager's mom comes in like every 3 days
>apparently i have prosopagnosia when it comes to old people so i NEVER fucking recognize her
>forget to give her discount every time thinking she's a random
>she has to correct me every time

>>1368910
It really, really is. I mean, I hate working in retail, it's pretty bad, but I need the money for University. However, I will still do my absolute best to be nice to people and all that sort of shit - Hell, in my first week I had 3 different people tell my manager that I was working well and really pleasant. So when I get some asshole telling me to go get my supervisor because I'm apparently not good enough to find a dessert for them, even though I already told them that what we have out is what's in stock AND then looked for them, they seriously need to go fuck themselves, it's just ridiculous.

>>1368952
> prosopagnosia
I actually do have a minor case of that. Shit sucked as a kid.

used to work at giant eagle. most customers were old and insane, and all of them were abusive

>first day
>crazy old guy comes up and doesnt have his store card because he's a fuck
>we have to remember a fucking long code for this kind of shit, the "store card number"
>go to type it in while hes being a smug bastard
>mess up the last 2 digits and have to start over
>"whoa, mistyped, one sec.. first day here"
>STUPID FUCKS LIKE YOU SHOULD JUST JUMP OFF A FUCKING BRIDGE

a few months later
>bagging that day
>we're supposed to put 12packs of soda on the top of the cart in the seat thing
>crazy old lady comes through, buying 12 packs
>i go to put it in the cart
>lady flips her shit
>OH MY GOD I WILL DO THAT MYSELF DONT YOU TOUCH IT YOU LITTLE SHIT
>physically grabs my arm and starts hitting me
>everyone around WTFs

that was the day i left my shit there and didnt come back

>>1369099
>first day here

Jesus fuck, how many times have I seen that shit? I hate it when customers hassle the new guy. Shit pisses me off beyond belief.

>>1367716

>old guy has morals
>wtf guys?

Civilization is declining.

This'll be my third year working at the same fucking grocery store. If it wasn't for the customers and the silly shit head office wants us to do, I'd probably be completely fine with the job.

Customer base consists solely of new immigrants who can't speak English, rude old people from the 5 retirement homes nearby, and the fucking white trash that think they're better than me.

Inspectors from head office have actually told me that the customers at this store are the worst they've ever seen.

>>1369266
>doesn't understand how commerce has operated for centuries
>thinks civilization is declining
Brainwashed by corporations much?

>>1368038
hit the nail on the head with this.

>work in a Brookshire's (if you live in Texas or Louisiana you know what it is)
>rural, hickass store- think Cracker Barrel but with actual groceries
>over charge anyone who pays with a debit card by charging them $1-3 over the amount
>the system shows it as cashback, and if I close my till fast enough the customer never knows
>distract them from the screen with BS small talk
>fold receipt when I hand it back- almost guarantees they'll never look at it
>keep a running count all shift (think card counting)
>take money out at end of shift
>regularly make >$20 a shift easily

Always, always, always get and look at your receipts closely. There are customers I overcharge to get "cashback" as much as $10 because they come in so often I know their automatic response will be "throw the receipt away for me, will ya?"

>>1369676
>Old guy buys 200 bricks
>Knows the price of bricks
>Cashier rings up cheaper bricks
>Honest person offers to pay the difference
>Cashier doesn't understand why honest guy doesn't take the lower price.

>Honest people being honest.
>Poster irate at cashier for for not understanding this
>Civilization is in decline

???
I don't think you understood what you responded to.

>Be cashier at Target
>Be around Christmas Time
>Checkout lines pretty much all the other way to other side of store
>Call customer
>I Say: "Hi, how are you?"
>Good thanks, been busy today?
>mfw
YOU DON'T FUCKING SAY

>>1370242
you are a fucking dick.
People not paying attention is not an excuse to steal. you must have had some shitty parents and I hope you die screaming.

>Not bagging yourself.

Is hiring people to put shit into tiny bags an American thing or something?

I'm a cashier, as far as I see it, its MY job to bag for customers, I will always bag for them.

I'm probably the fastest and most efficient person on the tills out of my team, this means I am on the till without a break during busy seasons (summer and xmas).

Working the tills 24/7 is the most draining thing. It means customers automatically assume the right to treat you like a moron, even if you are well educated, smart and efficient. I've been screamed and shouted at for no reason apart from the fact that the customer is in a bad mood. I dread going to work every day, but I go in with a smile.

WTF gives people the right to treat another human being like that?

I piss off cashiers when I get $50 in free shampoo and shit every shopping trip.

I've stopped being nice though and started being arrogant/smug.

Kept getting treated like shit so I'll be the same.

<3 Quebec Scanning code. It's law that if the item rings up wrong it's mine for free. Muahahahaahaahahahaahahahaahaha.

>Puts money on the conveyer belt.
>Right next to the hole where it ends
>I have to catch it before it goes through the hole
Unbelievable

Okay, this was my worst mistake
>Guy wants 2 $200 giftcards
>He pays, I hand them over, and he leaves
>I remember I have to activate them
I wonder how long it took him to figure it out?

>working behind till
>Some guy comes in
>asks for change
>let me just say that 10 minutes later, he somehow left the shop with over 50 quid

THAT BASTARD TRICKED ME!

>used to work deli
>number ticket thing only ever got used on holidays so there was essentially no queuing system.
>when it's busy, everyone fucking stares at you and acts all pissed or huffy if you don't serve them first
>fucking adults don't know how to wait their fucking turn
>mfw fucking adults argue with each other about who was first

and that was when I lost a bit of faith in humanity.

>Customer wants a scratch card
>try to scan it, it doesn't scan
>'GUESS IT MUST BE A WINNER!'
>...
>'YES ROFL HAVE A NICE DAY SIR :DDDDDDDDD'

I hate everything.

>>1374180
I remember seeing an alert on the staffroom walls about being careful if an guy came up wanting to change cash into smaller change or something

fuck I wish I remembered how the guy did it

I have a story. It's an annoying one.

>I'm the new guy, been working at the shop for 6 weeks
>customers come in, I scan and bag their shit
>Always happy and smiling, asking people how they are
>eventually get called by my boss
>'We need you to do a urine sample.'
>'What? Erm, sure, any reason why?'
>'We've had complaints that you may be using drugs on the job.'
>Try to defend my case, she doesn't believe me and gets mad and accuses me of ruining the reputation of the shop for being a HARDCORE DRUG USER
>the results come back cleaner than 20 million year old lake water under the ice
>'Ooohhh I AM sorry anon, but you can NEVER BE TOO CAREFUL NOWADAYS. :3333'
>mfw I calmly told her that I quit, and that maybe herself and the customers should get used to a smiling face once in their life

Felt. AMAZING.
shame I'm still looking for work.

>>1374226
fuck that's a shame

My manager and assistant manager were the most understanding and nicest people ever. All my coworkers were the nicest and understanding people as well.

fuck some part of me regrets leaving that place, I don't think that was a common thing to have.

>>1367575
Fuck every person who says that shit
>>1367615
In wal-mart we have to bag shit as we're ringing it up. Try bagging literally 160 items while the customer stares blankly at you while you have no bags left, no room left to put the full bags, and theres still more to go. I get anxiety attacks and those situations trigger them.

also, wal-mart has some scum customers.
>be checking out a 50+ year old woman
>is with her even older 70+ mother
>asks if i have big bags
>look, "no, i don't have any i'm sorry ma'am"
>look at all the other registers, they have none either
>"WTF THIS IS SOME BULLSHIT YOU LITTLE BITCH WHERES YOUR MANAGER YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS"
>still have dozens more items
>she keeps mumblings insults to me under her breath
Like holy shit, what the fuck is so wrong with you that you think that is an appropriate response to no huge bags?

>be hired as a cashier for walmart in gulf-coast alabama
>su[ervisor tells me to watch out for people trying to con me into giving them too much change back
>always count out the money, count it back handing it to them, close drawer right away
>guy buys reeses bar with $100 bill
>give exact change, never tricked
>black chick hired with me got conned out of $400
How in the fuck did he trick her into giving back $400 more than he gave her?

> customer had to pay about 100 euros of shoes
> the customer puts a bag with a ton of 1 euros coins on the table
> pokerface.jpg

>>1374279
shes black so maybe that guy was her babby daddy and was in a con with him to get bank

>Working the register at a local pizza place
>Ring up a customer who just got done eating
>"Oh, is that the price? Seams expensive. James (Manager) Always gives me a discount
>"Well James isn't here, and I don't have a list of who gets what. I'm sorry."
>Customer gets mad and demands to speak with James
>Give them his personal number "Here ya go."
>They call him and talk for like 5 minutes
>Finally hang up and they end up paying full price
>James calls the store "Sorry about that. You did the right thing. Just, next time don't give people my number yeah?"
>Continue to give people his number every time this happens
>He eventually stops giving out discounts

>Working as a cashier at grocery store
>Huge black guy wearing a cowboy hat who's with an old woman walks into my line and begins vividly describing his recent sex life
>Describes it as him getting over his dry spell and is now drowning in the hurricane
>He's nodding to the old woman the entire time with a rapist grin the entire time
> wut.jpg

>>1374329
Another story
I often ran the store alone every day. Cooking and working the register from about 2pm till 5pm

>Customer comes in. It's around 3
>"I had an order to be ready at 3."
>"You did? Hold on let me check..." I never got a call for an order
>Find nothing, as I knew I would and tell him so
>"Did you maybe call it in to somewhere else?"
>"Your kidding me right? This is bullshit! I called in my order over an hour ago!"
>"I'm sorry sir, I've been here most of the day and I never got an your order."
>"I need to speak with your manager. This is bullshit."
>Give him James number. He and James talks.
>I offered to make the guys order anyways but he told me to fuck off and left.
>I called other pizza places around town to see if his order was somewhere else by mistake
>Nope
>Guy comes back almost 2 hours later
>He had put the order in at a store over an hour away
>Apologizes to me and becomes a frequent customer from then on

>be a cashier in new jersey
>fat guy comes into my express line with a bag of onions and is wearing a police uniform
>"that'll be whateveronionscost"
>"wooooah buddy the sign said its 99 cents"
>I know that each individual onion or whatever is that amount and he had multiple
>"that can't be?"
>IM A COP FROM NEW YORK. IM VERY OBSERVANT. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SHIT PEOPLE TRY TO PULL ON ME. THIS IS REDICULOUS.
>he says hell be right back
>hold up the express line for 5 minutes
>co worker and cop come by and the cop made my coworker bring the sign for the product. she looked she got verbally abused
>he is the biggest stereotype of a newyork cop I have ever fucking seen

point is he was complaining that the sign was right over where the product was but he only looked at the price and didn't actually read what the price was for and expected to get a reduced or free ring up.

we do this but only if the sign was specifically for that product and rang up wrong but he just didn't even pick up the right product to begin with.

the only thing that bugs me about this job is how people feel so self entitled. I usually treat bad attitudes with kindness because the customers behind em tell me how much of a bitch the previous customer was and that makes it worthwhile for some reason. all my co workers, department managers, and store managers are real bros. it sort of feels like when you are in school and you have a substitute and the teacher left you work but the sub doesn't care how you do it or if you talk or share answers. as long as it gets who cares.

feels good man

>>1374356
I have far too many of these stories

>Old guy orders the same thing ever week
>And every week it is the same price
>Didn't get his order for about 3 weeks, he had gone on vacation
>Next week, he calls in his order
>Comes in and I ring him up
>Flips his shit about the price
>"This isn't right! I KNOW the price dammit! And this is too much!"
>"Sir this is the price it's been every time. I even gave you the discount."
>"You obviously have no idea what your doing! You must be retarded or something. I'm not paying that!"
>No kidding he takes his order and just leaves
>I called James and let him know, he told me he'd handle it
>Next week old guy calls the store for his order. Take it down in as polite a way as possible
>When he comes in to get it, I ring him up for the one he took before and the new one
>Flips his shit. I kept his order in the kitchen this time as well
>Informs me that James told him it was okay
>I inform him that I make his food every time and that if he didn't pay I would refuse to make the order from now on and he could go somewhere else.
>Silence
>He finally pays and leaves after like 20 minutes
>Original order was only $11.15 for 2 small pizzas
>Bitch at James when he gets back because he's a shit manager
>Didn't get in trouble

Stuff like this happened all the time. James was a terrible manager. Unfortunately I couldn't report him because he was also the owner

>load shopping cart full of groceries, electronics, clothing
>get into line
>people start gathering behind me
>takes 15 minutes to ring everything through
>oh wait nevermind I changed by mind I don't want any of this
>walk away

people was mad. very mad.

>lady and daughter walk in
>order a soda
>pay with a $100 bill
>do some crazy voodoo magic trick
>get their soda and jog out
>realize they walked out with almost $200
>run out the door and find her
>she lies about the money and gets away
>i get in trouble and compensate the lost money with a $100 out of my bank account
>rage like a bitch

>>1374448
I once did that after being treated like shit by a manager.

I filled up an entire cart of $400 worth of goods. Lots of meat and frozen. Then said I forgot my debit card and left.

Check mate.

>>1374458
They were just smarter than you bro.
My dad used to do that shit when he was a heroin addict, most cashiers rush to give u change, and they're easily confused with simple math.

You give a $100, ask for change for a $20, change your mind and want a $50 instead, say you handed them a $20 not a $50, and you cashiers are rushing and too ignorant to realize whats going on and how they're doing it.

>Be 14
>Get my first job at a Pizza place (papa murphy's)
>3rd day working
>Have me taking calls
>Some lady places an order
>Asks me what the price will be
>"Sure it will be.. hold on a minute please"
>Realize there are no prices anywhere
>Not even on the ads
>Ask manager what x and x costs
>He's busy and ignores me
>Realize customer has been on hold a while
>Oh god what do I do
>Tell her to bring between 10 and 30 dollars
>Calls me a dumbass and hangs up

Yeah, I know I was stupid. It still hurt though ;_;

>>1374477
>people tried to pull this shit on me when i worked in a pub
>told them to fuck off and put all the change in the tip jar

>>1374505

If it was me at the pub, I'd beat your ass

>>1374505
people used to pay with 10 notes then ask for change for change from a 20 or 50.
Considering we dont take 50s, and I know how to count they usually got fucked.

for 1 drink they get 15 change and I keep the coins and say "try and pull that shit again and you're barred". I hate crooks.

>>1374519
also they change the order as many times as possible to try and confuse you and get free drinks. Hate that shit.

>Working retail in small Norwegian town
>Customers generally polite and easy to deal with
>Sometimes annoying ones, but they never yell at you or any of the crazy shit in these threads
>They never tell you to "get your supervisor" to complain about you
>No customers presume to have the power to get you arbitrarily fired, because we have workers rights and contracts
>Days never longer than 8 hours/5 days a week, that would be overtime
>What is wrong with American customers?

>>1374549
Because consumers are becoming more and more self-entitled and feel that their shitty worthless US currency is worth treating other humans like sub-shit for cheap China/indonesia-made products.

All the while the workers are worked to death like rented mules for no insurance benefeits, pay that won't support their over-indulging lifestyles and hours that only leave enough time to sleep and commute back and forth to work.

>>1374568
well fuck man, can't we just buy our iPods and drink our Starbucks without you judging us?

>at shitty gas station job
>go outside to fuck off since we're never busy on weekends
>some lady comes behind the building where I am smoking weed
>offers me some
>go back inside high as shit
>ring up a few customers
>don't remember if I did it right
>buy chips, go in back room to watch a training video
>fall asleep for an hour
That was a good day.

>>1374612
There was supposed to be a comma between Where I am, smoking weed.

>>1374549
Same here in England man.
We do however, get sarcastic glances and tuts.

someone that works as a cashier for a career doesn't have the right to complain.
/thread

anti-cashiers story

Whenever I see a person I know working as a cashier I ask them loudly, "Wow, don't they know you steal?!"

Actually there's this one girl who works at the gas station I started doing that shit too and I didn't even know her. Now we smack talk eachother and she gives me free shit on the downlow.

the one that always drove me up the fucking wall was when some fat black bitch rolls up with a fucking overflowing cart of shit, nd says "oh can you tell me when it hits x amount?" where x is clearly about $100 less than the total in the cart. No bitch, I'm not slowing down to hit total every fucking item, watch the screen yourself. Then when it inevitably goes over: "Take this one off and this one, oh add this on..." ad nauseum. Then the bitch pays with food stamps and complains about how slow we are while everyone else in line stares daggers at me like it was my fault.

>>1367884
mah nigga. i usually try to save everyone money since my store is shit, but if you are an asshole ill add more to the total and there is almost no way for them to know.

>quitting shitty cashier job
>everyone liked me
>customer gave me 20 dollars for booze to celebrate
I actually miss that job. The dude who gave me 20 dollars was probably the coolest mother fucker I've ever met.

btw, holy shit you people make my factory job look like paradise

>guaranteed 40 hrs a week, often overtime optional
>good pay
>I work on a machine by myself
>supervisor cool as fuck
>smoke breaks and slacking off when I feel like it because when shit really needs to be done to ship out I can get it done in a snap

I used to work at Kohl's, that was murder. I was mainly on stock and truck duty but filled in on the floor and cashier every now and then. All of my hatred for people. The only cool moment I had was when this guy came in and asked for help finding pants. He was clearly a middle aged dude who just wore jeans and flannel every day but his wife was making him dress up for some bullshit. I had no idea what he should do either but we took about an hour and figured everything out.

>>1367841
what a fucking bitch, if I see like a 600ml or whatever size coke (nobody buys them in the supermarket they are like 4.50 fucking dollars) I just say "you didn't buy that here yeah?" or "you brought that in with you right?" or I just ignore it even if its stealing its a fucking coke, we do like 50 grand in trade a day

>customer pays with large bill
>check if it's fake or not
>"HEH ITS GOOD, I JUST MADE IT!"

All the god damn time.

>>1367615
Never bag shit, not my job. Store wants me to bag then pay me or lower the damn prices.

>>1374718
I just ignore that shit. I've given away so much free stuff. I also have stolen A LOT. Man my job is awesome.

>>1368034
>mfw they try this on me and i dont give a fuck
>mfw i cant be fired

>Work at Circle K (Convenience store) graveyard shift
>dude comes in, kinda happy, not drugged up or anything
>buys stuff, looking for something to eat
>see $5 sandwich
>"Woah, that's expensive!"
"Yeeaaah, I know..."
>"Can you like, look away and I can take one?"
>Playful cover my eyes for a moment, keep an eye to make sure he's not actually stealing it
>Hey, that was a pretty funny joke
>"But it wasn't a joke..."

The fuck

>>1374477
>mfw in my country every bill is a completely different color, 100's are slightly bigger and brightish green, fucking idiots have tried this on me so many times before
>mfw I just say "No I gave you the correct change, I know this trick mate"

>You give a $100, ask for change for a $20
>ask for change for a $20
>change for a $20
>give them $100 bill
>mfw your smackhead dad was a fucking simpleton

>>1368034

>works in fucking sales
>get a "better job you plebs"
>mfw shut up you fucking prole, 99% of cashiers do it a summer or HS job, you are a crummy store based salesman ITSUMOOOOOOOOOO

>>1374722
Pay with large bills, cashier checks them. Haha guess they are real. Haha you think I'd be standing in line at walmart if I could counterfeit 100s?
Dumb ass. All the time.

>>1374764
You stupid fuck. If you could counterfeit bills, you'd use them inconspicuously, such as at Wal-mart.

>>1374749
>this guy gets butthurt because he doesn't know how currency works in america and got conned out of $100 by some bitch
>look who looks stupid

>>1374764
You'd be surprised how often it happens, same with traveler's checks. Plus, I know at my work you can get fired for not checking anything above a $20.

>>1374741

I work at Circle K too, but not the night shift. It`s still slow and boring as fuck

>>1367480

Thats your retard companies fault for needing permission for that shit.

I can void as much shit off of my register as I want, or refund whatever the fuck I want. It doesn't matter because I'm in view of 9 cameras, as you probably are as well.

>>1374180
this girl at my store got suspended for a week after getting gipped out of $150. i had to work more too shit sucked

>>1374796
I just listen to music the entire shift from the speakers on my PSP, and I just clean/stock the whole store.
It's boring for most, but doing the exact same thing ever day I work just fits better with me.

>>1374769
Inconspicuous would be selling them to others at 50 cents on the dollar or using them out of the country. Not in a walmart you fucking moron

>>1374776
>gives 100 dollar bill
>asks for "change FOR a 20 dollar bill"
>mfw how could a cashier not know a 100 from a 20 bill

I dont know maybe cashiers in your country are actually so retarded they cant distinguish between a hundred and any other note in existence

Also if somebody only wants change the cashier knows what the hell bill you gave them, also if somebody wants to change a note as well as buy things I'll always finish the sale, shut the drawer and THEN change their money (I'm fast so they don't notice, takes literally 5 seconds to pop the draw again to make change) I work in a fucking scumzone area so I'm already judging the filthier customers as dodgy cunts

>>1367653
I'm only twenty years old and I've never once thought of people bagging their own groceries.

Is that a thing? I've never once seen people do it where I live, and I wouldn't expect customers to do it if I was a cashier.

>>1374819
>selling them to others
>using them outside of the country

>>1367615
>mfw in my country there's always someone who bags sitting next to the cashier
>mfw they bag right as the cashier is ringing the stuff
>mfw as soon as you pay for the stuff you're already good to go

>an elder couple loads 6000 products onto the fucking thing
>there's a lady behind them with two products
>tell her to get in front of them so I can handle her stuff first while the couple's busy
>the elder man actually coughs "faggot" and looks at me to make sure I didn't notice
>I tell ask him what's wrong
>"WAS SHE IN A RUSH OR SOMETHING?"
>No but she seemed more polite and less childish than you, sir. I was taught that patience was the key and as this woman had the patience to wait for your slowlyness I let her go first
>He starts ignoring me until I finished their business and finished up saying "Also sir I hope you have a terrific day and win the lottery."

Oh god.. That feel... I know it.

>Yesterday, me and my manager are talking at my till
>Older gentleman comes up to my register
>"I want to know how much that Shih-tzu dog food is. It said 46.99 on the shelf, is that with or without tax?"
>Without, I believe.
>"WITH OR WITHOUT?"
>Without, sir. All of the prices on our shelves are priced without tax.
>"So with?"
>No, without.
>"So how much would it be with tax then? ANSWER ME THAT?"
>(kinda caught off guard) Well.. I'm sorry sir, but I would need the bag up here so I can scan and check the price.. I unfortunately do not have a scan book with sku numbers...
>"JUST TELL ME WHAT THE DAMN PRICE IS WITH TAX, ITS NOT THAT HARD"
>(actually it kinda is, for me anyway since I suck at any kind of math that isn't simple add/subtract) I'm sorry sir.. *reach into drawer to get a calculator*
>Manager comes up, asks him what food so she can run and grab a bag
>"ITS SHIH-TZU! SHIH-TZU"
>Manager: Yes, sir, but what brand? Is it Royal Canin?
>"GOD, ITS SHIH-TZU HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW"
>Me: It's probably Royal Canin (the only bag that does breed specific that we sell).
>She runs and grabs the bag, I try to calculate it while he keeps yelling "JUST TELL ME HOW MUCH IT IS WITH TAX" then "oh don't bother trying to calculate it" then "I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT IS"
>She comes back. Scan it. 53something or other with tax.
>"Good. Thats all I wanted to know." Leaves the store.
>Me and manager exchange a look of WTF is his problem.

>>1375441

huh? why do you put prices without tax? this is stupid

>>1367575
>>1367884
>>1374256

>ITT we don't understand how people deal with unexpected and uncommon situations with humor

You guys aren't only autistic, you're assholes to boot. Especially you, >>1367884

>>1375441
About half an hour later, same gentleman comes back into the store.
>About 15 minutes after I greet him, he comes to my register with a dog collar.
>He's fiddling with it, trying to make it bigger, but he can't figure it out.
>Muttering to himself "goddammit how the hell does this stupid thing.."
>Hi, sir.
>"How much is this dog collar?"
>(I pick it up, it doesn't have a scan tag.) Sorry, sir, but I can't price it for you without a scan tag.
>He stares at me blankly. "Well why can't you just tell me the price."
>I don't have a scan book, I'm sorry but will you be able to please get me another one off the shelf, since I cannot scan this one.
>"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST TELL ME THE DAMN PRICE, I JUST FOUND IT ON A SHELF HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHERE IT IS"
>I'm sorry sir, but I can't-
>*picks up and collar the and throws in on my counter* "WELL I'M NOT GONNA WASTE MY TIME GOING BACK TO THE SHELF".. incoherent muttering and swear words as he walks out.
>I mutter "holy moly" under my breath as he's out the door.
>Other customer coming in with her 2 children, gives him and wide eyed look as he shoves past her, she stares at me wide eyed.. not sure if she thinks it was my fault, or if she felt sympathetic for me.

I think everyone should have to work a customer service job at least once in their lives

>>1375494
I don't know. But everything in store is priced on the shelf without tax and tax comes after when its rung through the register.
Even price checking in the register doesn't show tax! Just the price without! Its fucking stupid!
Luckily, I can just scan something normally (as if to purchase it, but delete it after) to see the price with tax.. but still.
But this is Canada.. so maybe thats why? I don't know. Every store I've gone to has shelving prices without tax. It's just the way things are here, and I've never gotten any shit from customers about it.. untill yesterday.
But yes, I agree, pricing without tax is pretty fucking stupid.
I understand if he's not from here and things are different, but yelling at me isn't gonna change the way my store does things. :( I think for him it was more the principle that I couldn't pull a number out of my ass without knowing the exact product/sku number and that I was wasting his time. I understand its a shitty system but.. fuck.. I can't just leave the cash (I'd get written up for leaving my till) to check an item and its either he waits around 10+ minutes for one of my coworkers to MAYBE go get one or never show up since we are fucking understaffed all the fucking time (luckily my manager was near by at the time) or he goes and gets another one himself. Alot of the time customers don't mind going to find one with a sku for me, and actually unnescessarily apologise to me for grabbing one without. I guess I was wrong with him, and needed to shit out of the air magically for him.

>work at a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician/assistant/whatever you want to call it
>horrible smelling guy comes in asking for tylenol 1s
>go and get some, the ones we have are generic
>have to explain to the guy for like 20 minutes that acetaminophen is tylenol
>he still doesn't get it
>have shit like this happen a few times a day
>why the fuck didn't I become a nurse like I wanted and picked this shitty customer service based career
>go home and apply for nurse program

hope I get in, fuck

>>1375619
Enjoy being treated like shit by pharmacists.

>>1375608
Are you in a small shop? No dedicated price checker like SuperStore?

bump for rage and torment

Newbie here. Doing a 90 min shift at a football match on Saturday selling at the kiosks.

The mongol horde will be infront of me at half time. Thrown into the deep end with no experience, should be interesting.

Will post results in the next cashier/retail thread if there ever is one.

Pic related when the pies run out apparently.

>>1375619
>thinks he/she'll will be treated better a a nurse

HAHAHA Fuck. oh wow.

>>1367776
>>1368192
>>1367776
>>1373453
Target bro's

> normally work hardlines
> cashier if they need me to
> Sunday
> busy as fuck like always
> lady buys ~$250 in groceries
> pays
> wants to buy $300 in giftcards separately
> check declined
> "RUN IT AGAIN"
> uh... okay...
> declined again
> call over guest assistance
> told her to call her bank's 1-800 number
> gets back in my line 20 minutes later
> screams at me that not accepting her check is discrimination and that she's going to sue Target
> guest service assistant comes back over
> asks her to leave
> she does
> in handcuffs
> in the back of a police cruiser

She had been part of some illegal check ring or some shit.

>>1368598
It somehow became I habit when I was young. Everyone, even people in my age group, as long as they are a customer is a sir or ma'am. Not faking or putting on a face. It's what comes naturally.

In Austria, no cashiers put the stuff in the bag, the customers have to do that. This seems weird to me.

I work at a car wash, and having to push buttons to keep pushing idiot customers through grinds my gears so. fucking. hard. I wasn't racist and/or hating all humans until I worked here.

>try to guide customer into the tunnel with hand signals
>follows NONE of my exaggerated pointing to the right
>Hops onto one of the two rails that keep a car going straight through the tunnel and miraculously lands in between that and the other rail
>tell him that EXAGGERATED POINTING means to drive to the right
>he threatens to get out and kick my ass for being "belittling"

Um, what?

Oh hey, this thread is still up.

Let's see:

>Worked at a Halloween store for a couple months
>Two guys had just started up the business, really has a "This is being home owned" vibe
>Job experience, here I come

>First day
>Helping to set up this new location for the guys
>Rigging up shelves, stuff like that
>"Here anon, unpack these boxes and hang the stuff on the shelves."
>Open boxes
>Filled with women's underwear and stockings.
>Sixteen year old Anon realizes that this is kinda sexy and awesome, but being in a quiet store with coworkers I don't know yet makes it awkward as hell.
>Good times.

>Same job, couple of months in.
>We have to walk around constantly, making sure customers can find what they're looking for. (And not steal shit.)
>Notice big family walking in.
>Oh boy. Here we go.
>They walk around a bit, perusing.
>Little boy that's with them starts to notice decorations.
>Freaks the fuck out
>Crying
>Screaming
>Bawling
>I keep an eye on them, not really knowing what to do.
>Dad of group looks at kid right in the eyes
>"We're not leaving until you stop crying."
>Holy dicks that kid will grow up to be a hard ass.

That job was really friendly, but kind of terrible.

>>1375565
Agreed. You never truly understand the stupidity of the masses until you are in a customer service job. I've worked as a bagger/casheir for nearly 6 years (through high school and summers during college), and I have seen it all. I go out of my way to be nice to cashiers wherever I go because I know that feel, but if they are a dick to me I know exactly how to make their lives living hell.

>>1376947
Similar story

>Working at Kroger
>Running U-Scan
>Woman comes through line, buys ~$15 worth of small items and $250 visa prepaid debit card
>Wants to pay with check
>Brings me check (have to proof it and put it in till at attendant station)
>I examine check before printing
>Bank logo from Texas (I'm in Ohio)
>Logo printed crooked
>Contact info printed crooked
>Call manager over under guise of needing override for a large check
>Manager inspects check
>Calls police
>Woman escorted out of store

Turns out there was a group running a check scheme buying non-refundable gift cards with these fake checks, and had been going on for weeks in the area.
>mfw it only took me paying attention to a badly forged check to stop them

>>1368637
I live near hy-vees too. Iowa

>>1374477
That doesn't work on me at all. Even if I'm a bit daft, I still double-count everything and take as much time as I sodding need to make sure I'm not being horribly ripped off

>>1376947
That is fucking bizarre. If you know you're doing something illegal, you don't make a scene and draw attention to yourself. If you fail you fuck off and try again another day, not 5 minutes later. Dumb silly person deserved to get caught.

This thread requires more stories, je pense.

Sssstoriesblaux

>buying stuff at supermarket
>I'll get $50 cash out also
>pay card
>get bag of food and drive 45mins home
>no $50 in wallet
>mfw greasy cashier pockets my money and doesnt tell me when I forgot

>Hot female cashier smiles and stares me in the eyes for 5 seconds
>Smile back
>IMMD

Lets archive dis?

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I swear to god, I had a London cockney in the shop where I work. Suffolk here.

>Working my shift
>at 6:25pm, the London guy comes in
> Not his exact words, but it comes close.
>'Hey there mate, got a lucky shining star for me?'
>'Eh?'
>'Gotta WINNER for me?'
>'I'm sorry sir?'
>'Mate, have you got the magic slips?'
>'What do you want?'
>'... the lotto please mate.'

JUST FUCKING SAY IT YOU RETAAAAARD

Not a cashier story

>Be a meat cutter at a local grocery chain
>"BAWW MEATS EXPENSIVE BAWW"
>Here this everyday
>Explain that gas prices are driving up the prices at all grocery stores
>WHY.jpg
>"Because the meat is transported by truck to the store."
>They look dumbfounded at this realization
>mfw

>>1384131
are you american?
these people are literally retarded

> insert bank card with gold computer chip thing
> READ FAILED
> "i'll just swipe it"
> *swipe*
> CARD MUST BE INSERTED
> me: "it has to fail twice in a row before it lets you swipe it"
> *inserts card while the error is still there*
> REMOVE CARD
> *removes card*
> *inserts card*
> CARD READ FAILED
> "that was twice"
> *swipes card*
> me: "no it was once because you were too quick"
> CARD MUST BE INSERTED
repeat ad infinitum

>>1384137
Yes. I absolutely despise my customers. Most of them who shop at my store are people who've been kicked out of other stores or come here because they know they can get away with stupid shit. My company is too pussy to call out customers so they stay and drive us up the wall.

>Smug ass little shit kid comes in
>Gets 3 Fanta's and some chocolate
>'ERRMM, CAN I PAY FOR EACH OF THEEESE...'
>he shuffles the chocolate bar closer to my hands and raises an eyebrow
>'SEPARATELY?'
>Co-worker looks at me with the weirdest look, like 'what the fuck is the kid on?'
>'Erm... sure.'
>'Can I ALSO pay for THEEEESE Fanta's with..'
>he swipes out a card
>'THIS?'
>'Excuse me kid, but where did you get that from?'
>he stammers
>'O-oh, sorry.. it's my Mums..'
>'Okay kid.'
>scan it through
>He doesn't know his mums pin
>'Why isn't it working, are you doing your job properly?'
>shoot daggers at him
>He looks at his shoes
>it rejects 3 times
>'I hope you realize that after it rejects 2 times, the bank closes the account?'
>The kid goes white
>'I-I'll pay for it with my own money then I guess...'
>He takes back all 3 Fanta's and gets himself the chocolate
>he walks out of the shop, white as a ghost
>co-worker is just laughing under her breath

I LOVE FUCKING WITH KIDS.

I got assaulted my a customer when I was a sup. at Kmart in Aus

>one Saturday the power fails
>then the backup generator
>then the backup-backup generator
>close the store 3 hrs early

I wasn't working that day, I open up on Sunday
The people on that day took down the names of everyone who wanted to purchase and put the items aside

>Sunday morning
7:30, we open at 8
>already customers queuing outside
>some try get in when I open the door for my staff
>front end there was me and a new girl
>I am counting in while she's standing on her register selling the items people left behind
good girl, really pretty
>I finish counting
>long line of pissed off people at the service desk
>deal with first 2 fine
>third one says "I left my items here last night and I can't find them"
this is just after 8 and the replan staff have returned the items without names on then
>I ask for his name
>"Faggy McFagton"
>"nope, not there. did you inform the staff on last night?"
>"YOU SHOULD FUCKING REMEMBER EVERYONE YOU LAZY CUNTS CANT DO YOUR JOBS
>"now sir, I wasn't here yesterday, I don't know who is who and even if i was working I doubt I could"

I can't really remember much after that apart from him hitting me after 'talking' a bit longer and then hitting my nose.
Security guard tackled him and cops soon came

>fuckingworthit

>>1384173
> physical assault over some shit at KMart

Sounds about right. Lowbreeds love KMart. What suburb?

>>1384177
I live in central australia
bogan and coon capitol

>Working register at a fast food place
>Have to mark bills over $20 with the pen that checks for counterfeits
>"Oh yeah I printed that this morning HAHAHA."

Every. Damn. Time...

I work at a Subway with a drive thru, the lobby closes at 9pm and drive thru at 11pm, people ALWAYS come well past 9 and actually knock on the fucking door.

>>1384264
lol i got a similar one
>*i check if it's real*
>it's good brah! .. i made it myself!

Worked at Wendy's in high school, here's a particularly... Strange story.

>ordinary night, not too busy.
>guy walks up, asks for a double cheeseburger with just the patties and cheese, no bun, no veggies.
>asked him "no bun, no veggies?" just to be clear. he nodded.
>new to cash, used to be on grill, so it took a bit of figuring but I rang up his order all the same.
>he gets his order, thanks me, walks away.
>comes back 20 minutes later, bitching that his burger didn't come with anything on it, kept calling me a loser and a retard, demanded to see my manager.
>my manager talked with him for a few minutes, ended with telling him to get a life, and to stop trying to scam fast food joints for free food.

Have a few more similar to that one, it was painfully obvious he was trying to get free shit.

>>1384291
My dad used to get free meals all the time telling them it was too salty.

Such is life in Canada. >eating tampered burgers

>>1384127
fuck you,

if someone came in and talked like that it'd make my fucking day. why do you have to hate people who try to brighten up dull, everyday situations?

>>1384301
That I didn't mind. If we genuinely fucked up, (oversalted/undercooked/wrong toppings), that's okay and I'm more then happy to make you a new sandwich, and you can keep the old one. But belligerent dickholes like that... Let's just say I hope there's a special circle of hell for them to burn in.. Maybe a circle where THEY work retail all day and every customer that comes by is a douche.

>>1376947
I have another one.

> working the registers
> some nigger comes up with two visa gift cards
> waiting in line behind two other people
> constantly swearing under his breath
> tries to pay with a credit card
> declined
> "I'm sorry, your card was declined. Do you want to pay another way?"
> Nah niggah, I just fucking mad at mah fucking girl, that fucking bitch
> "Oh....okay..."
> he storms off
> people in line staring at him
> I start apologizing to fucking everyone
> they just stare at him more

That's the only bad experience I've had with minorities while working there. There was a time when a group of black people who reeked of weed asked me where the Walmart was.

> ey man, where the walmart at?
> "Uh..... the one across the street?"
> oh

And then they were laugh.

>>1384127
seriously you sell lottery tickets and you couldnt fathom what he meant? mmmk

>work at toy store
>one fat middle aged guy comes in and buys $104 worth of hotwheels cars ranged $4-$7
>scan them all
>tells me his card might not work
>after scanning/bagging 20 tiny cars the card doesnt work
>ill go withdraw some money
>have to cancel it all
>he comes back in 20mins
>unbag/rescan all of the goddam cars again
>$97
>cbf just give it to him for that
>guilt of first scan screwup + he knows if fucked up
>fuck that place

>>1384291
I used to get free food from my local Hungry Jack's (BK) in Melbourne regularly, just because they were so fucking incompetent. Mostly aboriginal high school dropouts. Things like..

>Buy something for $4.95
>Pay with a $20
>Get $5.05 back
>Point this out
>Get given $15.05 as well
>Walk out 10c and a burger richer

or
>Order meal
>They get the burger and/or drink wrong
>"We're going to have to throw this out, so do you just want to take it anyway?"

Happened all the damn time. Never intentionally swindled them, they were just hopelessly useless.

>>1384378
>Walk out 10c and a burger richer

I can only imagine that feeling of satisfaction.

>Be cashier
>First day
>Nervous fucking wreck
>Guy comes up
>Super neckbeard
>bought rope, two cucumbers and lube
>look at him
>he looks at me
>"u... um, it's not what... you think"
>oh god he's talking to me
>"uh, you too?"
>Oh god
>spaghetti is falling out of my fedora
>about to burst to tears
>hide under register
>suddenly see more spaghetti
>this ain't mine
>look up
>neckbeard is shedding his spaghetti too
>other people behind him are beating the shit out of him
>my brother ;___;

I salute thee.

>>1368034
>Retail sales associate
>Telling anyone to get a better job
>Calling anyone a pleb

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

>after a few months of pushing carts around, my boss comes up to me
>"want to move up to cashier?"
>NOPE
>I still get the freedom to walk all over the store and parking lot with minimal accountability while all my peers toil in their little 3x5 checkout cubbies for an extra $.50/hour

>Be new cashier
>Asian chicks walk in with their 400 dollar gucci backpacks
>"Excuse me, can you guys please leave the backpacks up in the front?"
>"WAI?! I NO NEED TO DO DAT."
>Get nervous as fuck. oh god why
>Manager comes over to see whats going on
>Explain it to him
>He replies to asian chicks, "Because it's policy."
>Manager glares over at me and walks away.
>God fucking damnit.
>After almost 10 minutes the chicks drop their shit, and whine and complain as they walk through the store.
>goodness.